American Writers – an Exhibition of Photographs by Nancy Crampton Opened in Katowice

June 28, 2007

Opening of the exhibition

On June 28, Public Affairs Officer Susan Parker-Burns opened the photographic exhibition “American Writers” at Marcholt Gallery in Katowice. The exhibit features 43 photographs of major American novelists, poets and playwrights by the prominent American photographer Nancy Crampton, who has been a photographer of literary artists for thirty-five years. Each photograph is paired with a text from the writer including his thoughts on the craft, recollections of the moments which influenced his writing or a discussion of the social importance of writing.  Many of the subjects of the photographs are well-known, such as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison and John Cheever.  Nancy Crampton collected more than a hundred of these portraits in the book, “WRITERS”, published in 2005.  To celebrate the book, exhibitions of many of the photographs were held in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia.

The exhibit in Katowice will be open until July 17.